[sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: BBDs

[crystal]

have to admit, i'm mostly with Harry on the BBDs. for chorus and flanging i
think they are OK, for echos, delay, and especially reverb, i think they
suck, like really suck. (excepting the EH memory man, it's EH!)

I cringe when i imagine BBD reverb, ouch. much prefer a cheap digital reverb
compared with BBD. but, to each their own...

one useful project i did with BBD was a  Resonator module i built ala Ron
Berry the analog acoustic modeler (see Sound on Sound magazine on-line).
this works quite well and because it has a VCF on it, and because i use a
short delay time i can hide some of the crappyness of BBD).

for all you pro BBD folks i still recommend that you search out used chorus
pedals which are very often quite cheap (especially the less popular
brands). i pick them up for $20 or $30US at most... then hack mangle them
into something. this saves a lot of work on the filters, clock, etc. i think
that my Resonator module was made out of a DOD analog delay...

happy hack mangling...
crystal (who still has a box of chopped up BBD choruses somewhere)